Les partenaires collaboreront en vue de multiplier le nombre de services Orange portés sur cette plate-forme qui vise le marché des mobiles, mais aussi des netbooks, des TV connectées…
MeeGo commence à prendre du relief. Ce nouvel OS mobile a été présenté lors du dernier Mobile World Congress. Il s’agit en fait de la première concrétisation de l’accord passé entre Intel et Nokia en juin 2009. MeeGo est donc une plate-forme issue de la fusion de Moblin d’Intel, une distribution Linux basée sur Fedora et conçue pour les terminaux mobiles de petite taille, et de Maemo, le système d’exploitation dérivé de Linux conçu par Nokia qui équipe le N900.

Ce système sera “ouvert” à tous les fabricants et développeurs, et donc gratuit. Surtout, il pourra être utilisé dans toute une gamme d’appareils: smartphones haut de gamme, mini-PC, tablettes, télévisions connectées à internet, ou encore systèmes embarqués dans les véhicules.

Mobile phone operators must now limit how much they charge customers for using the Internet within the European Union, after new rules went into effect Monday.
Customers have until July 1 to set a maximum monthly cost with their network, and those who do not will by default have a €50 ($68) limit set.

The European Commission has cleared the proposed merger of Orange UK and T-Mobile UK.
The decision is conditional upon a network sharing agreement with 3 and the divestment of 25% of the combined 1800MHz band by the merged entity.

Google Inc (GOOG.O) told communications regulators on Tuesday the fee assessed on customers who end their service contracts for its Nexus One mobile phone has been slashed to $150 from $350.

HELSINKI — Nokia Corp. may be the world’s top cell phone maker, but it’s no longer a trendsetter, as a host of inventive and alluring technologies from North America is shifting the center of gravity in the cellular universe away from Europe.

Despite efforts to boost its position in the U.S., Nokia is struggling to compete with Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. — maker of the iPhone — and Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion, which makes the BlackBerry.

“There has long been a steady stream of North American firms attacking Nokia and they are likely to encourage others, such as Amazon, to follow suit,” said Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics. “The intensity of competition can really only get tougher.

NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless and Skype announced a partnership Tuesday to bring the Internet calling service to nine of the carrier’s 3G smartphones beginning in March.

With the free Skype Mobile application, Verizon (VZ, Fortune 500) smartphone users can make and receive unlimited free calls to other users who have Skype.

They can also use it to call any international phone number at Skype’s standard rates, which are much lower than Verizon’s international wireless calling rates. Calls abroad through Skype start at 2.1 cents per minute, and monthly unlimited packages are also available. The app will also let Skype users exchange instant messages.

“With any partnership, we’re looking to do what our consumers want. In this case, they asked for Skype to be untethered from their PCs,” Skype’s chief executive, Josh Silverman, told CNNMoney.com.

The TIA announced yesterday that SUPERCOMM had been “shelved” due to financial considerations. This was once the largest telecom show in the United States, and arguably, the world. Toast.

U.K. authorities want to review the merger of France Telecom SA and Deutsche Telekom AG’s British units, telling European Union authorities that the deal may significantly affect competition in the country.

The Office of Fair Trading asked the European Commission, the EU agency currently investigating the deal, to transfer the case to the U.K., the OFT said in a statement today. The EU will rule by March 1 on the request.

France Telecom chief executive Didier Lombard, under pressure after a rash of suicides at the former state monopoly, will hand over the company reins to his deputy on March 1, the group announced on Monday.

AT&T’s 3G network has already drawn complaints about its availability. Though the iPhone has given the wireless provider a vast stream of new subscriber revenue, the data-hungry device has weighed heavily on its network. Now AT&T has been named as the cellular data provider for 3G-enabled iPads, too. Can it take on the extra traffic?